S. 1968
Introduced in Senate · June 12, 2025June 5, 2025
Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Ms. Collins, and Mr. King) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance
A BILL
To support rural coastal and maritime economic development, and for other purposes.
1. Short title; table of contents; TITLE I—COASTAL ENERGY; 101. Credit for maintaining and enhancing hydroelectric facilities; 102. Transition to alternative fuel commercial fishing vessels; TITLE II—FISHERIES AND SEAFOOD; 201. Department of Agriculture loans and grants for fishing and mariculture businesses; 202. Extension of credit to businesses providing services to producers or harvesters of aquatic products; 203. Shellfish mariculture under the national harmful algal bloom and hypoxia program; 204. Allocation of funds under Saltonstall-Kennedy Act; 205. Electronic Monitoring Innovation Prize; TITLE III—SHORESIDE INFRASTRUCTURE; 301. Definitions; 302. Action plan and identification of coastal communities; 303. Grants and cooperative agreements to support rural seafood processing and cold storage; 304. Authorization of appropriations; 311. Working waterfront access protection grant program; TITLE IV—WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT; 401. Maritime workforce grant program; 402. Safety standards for certain fishing vessels; TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS; 501. Definitions; 502. Ocean Innovation Clusters; 503. Grants for Ocean Innovation Clusters; 511. Definitions; 512. Interagency Working Group on Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems and Great Lakes ecosystems; 513. National-level map and inventory of vegetated coastal ecosystems and Great Lakes ecosystems; 514. Grants for pilot projects and research on coastal natural infrastructure in cold climates; 521. Definitions in Federal Ocean Acidification Research And Monitoring Act of 2009; 522. Improvement of collaboration on ocean acidification; 523. Technical corrections; 531. Transfer of, and amendments to, the Coastal Aquatic Invasive Species Mitigation Grant Program and mitigation fund